Behavioral Welfare Economics and Redistribution
行为经济学挑战了偏好一致性的假设，本文基于Bernheim和Rangel的方法，探讨如何在部分偏好一致性的框架下处理分配问题，并推导出个人和社会情形的部分排序。
Behavioral economics has shaken the view that individuals have welldefined, consistent, and stable preferences. This raises a challenge for welfare economics, which takes as a key postulate that individual preferences should be respected. We argue, in agreement with Bernheim (2009) and Bernheim and Rangel (2009), that behavioral economics is compatible with consistency of partial preferences, and explore how the Bernheim-Rangel approach can be extended to deal with distributive issues. We revisit some key results of the theory in a framework with partial preferences, and show how one can derive partial orderings of individual and social situations.